Golant Stephen M
Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32611, USA.
Gerontologist. 2003 Oct;43(5):638-48. doi: 10.1093/geront/43.5.638.
Architects, environmental designers, occupational therapists, and human service professionals are variously engaged in efforts to create settings for older persons that better fit their changing lifestyles and abilities. This theoretical article argues that to explain and predict more effectively the appropriateness of the settings occupied and used by their older occupants requires models and empirical inquiries that better conceptualize two areas of inquiry: (a) the temporal properties of environments and individuals and (b) the conceptualization of environmental behaviors or activities describing how individuals use, manipulate, or perform tasks in their settings. The types of constructs and relationships necessary for this inquiry are reviewed and their practical applications considered.
建筑师、环境设计师、职业治疗师和人类服务专业人员都在以不同方式努力为老年人创造更符合其不断变化的生活方式和能力的环境。这篇理论文章认为，为了更有效地解释和预测老年人所占据和使用的环境的适宜性，需要模型和实证研究，以便更好地将两个研究领域概念化：(a) 环境和个体的时间属性，以及 (b) 对环境行为或活动的概念化，即描述个体如何在其环境中使用、操纵或执行任务。本文回顾了这一研究所必需的结构类型和关系，并考虑了它们的实际应用。
